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Senior HR Advisor

Elevation Recruitment GroupSheffield, Yorkshire🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 7 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This Senior HR Advisor role offers significant growth potential through exposure to HR Business Partnering and impactful projects within a reputable construction firm. You'll thrive here if you're adept at managing complex employee relations, driving engagement, and utilizing data to inform strategic decisions, all within a flexible hybrid work environment with competitive compensation. Embrace this opportunity to contribute meaningfully and advance your HR career.

Quick Overview

Salary
£42k/yr
Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employee RelationsSuccession PlanningWorkforce Planning

Job Description

Senior HR Advisor - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Sheffield - With some travel to other sites
Salary up to £42,000 + £5,700 Car Allowance

Elevation HR are excited to be partnering with one of our construction clients to appoint a Senior HR Advisor to join their HR team, based in Sheffield on a 12-month fixed-term contract.

The role offers hybrid working and will require some travel to different sites across the North West and Yorkshire which gives you the ability to really see the value added across the business plus fantastic exposure at HR Business Partnering level.

Benefits as a Senior HR Advisor include:

  • 26 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays
  • Hybrid Working - 1 / 2 Days Working from home
  • Car Allowance
  • Discretionary Bonus Scheme
  • Holiday Purchasing Scheme
  • Private Medical Insurance Scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Highstreet / Store Discounts

As a Senior HR Advisor your responsibilities will include:

  • Manage complex employee relations cases, providing expert guidance while coaching managers to build capability and confidence
  • Drive engagement initiatives including surveys, culture, wellbeing, and inclusion to enhance employee experience
  • Contribute to performance, development, and change initiatives, including training delivery, talent mapping, and organisational projects
  • Partner with the Senior Leadership Management team to shape and deliver the regional people plan aligned to business objectives
  • Use people data and analytics to produce insightful reporting, identify trends, risks, and opportunities, and drive continuous improvement
  • Lead workforce planning, organisational design, and succession planning to support current and future business needs
  • Support recruitment and resourcing activity, working closely with hiring managers on workforce and capability planning

The Ideal Candidate

  • Minimum 3 years' generalist HR experience, ideally at Senior Advisor level, with CIPD Level 5 (or equivalent)
  • Previous experience within construction, civil engineering, manufacturing, logistics or similar industries
  • Strong employee relations expertise with the confidence to coach, influence, and challenge managers at all levels
  • Highly organised, detail-oriented, and an effective communicator; able to work autonomously, travel regionally, and hold a full UK driving licence

If this sounds like the role for you or you'd like some more information - then please apply now.

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